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  • The Global Synthetic Ammonia Industry

    History and Developments

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This monograph is the first comprehensive historical overview of the global synthetic ammonia industry, highlighting its critical role in fixing nitrogen from the air in order to produce the fertilizers that support a significant portion of the world’s population. While the first part includes the storied Haber-Bosch process, introduced in 1913 by the German firm BASF, its main focus is on the ... Read more

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  • Nitrogen Capture

    The Growth of an International Industry (1900–1940)

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier SpringerBrief by the same author, which focused on the period of World War I, it expands considerably on the international aspects of the development of the synthetic nitrogen industry in the decade and a ... Read more

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  • The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I

    Its Emergence and Expansion

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists’ War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, as now, nitrogen products, including nitric acid, and nitrates, were essential for both fertilizers and in the manufacture of modern explosives. During the first decade of the twentieth century, this ... Read more

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  • My Life in Travel

    Letters to My Three Grandsons

    With wartime schooling in New Zealand, postwar schooling in Wales, and later University in Englands smog-bound Manchester, Travis had already travelled 14,000 miles by his 14th birthday! From studying a new and experimental 5 year Hons. Degree course in Town & Country Planning, his career was to lead on to developing Planning for Tourism as an even newer professional field.After a town planning ... Read more

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  • Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900–1939

    New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies

    Series Book 16 - Chemists and Chemistry
    The editors wish to thank the European Science Foundation for its support of the programme on the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939, as well as for sponsoring the publication of this volume. Through the subdivision of this initiative that deals specifically with chemical industry it has been possible for historians of science, technology, business and economics to share often widely ... Read more

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